Lynn Setterington

On holiday over the summer I came another embroidered signature cloth in Sturminster Newton in Dorset. It was made recently when the community hall was built.

Published: 6th October 2018
Themes: handmade, identity, quilt, signature, text

   A new project celebrating the achievements of the women of Tameside, past and present, coinciding with the centenary of women gaining the right to vote. The purposefully inclusive initiative takes place in late 2018 and early 2019 with groups across the borough. These include local textile groups, the Asian women’s organisation Khush Amdid, ESOL […]

Published: 5th October 2018
Themes: collaborative, commission, engagement, identity, suffragette, Tameside, text

        This project challenges stereo types surrounding embroidery, working with a group of 15 boys at Burnage Academy in Manchester. It is one in a series of initiatives to acknowledge the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Ahmed Iqbal Ullah, pupil at Burnage in the 1980’s, who was killed in a racially motivated […]

Published: 15th April 2018
Themes: Bangladesh, collaborative, crafts, engagement, film, handmade, identity, signature, text

         The collaboration Sew Near – Sew Far  with the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth sees a major new art installation on the moors close to the Bronte waterfalls from 1st -14th October 2017. #sewnearsewfar A film documenting the collaboration is on the Bronte Museum website under contemporary art. Sew Near – Sew […]

Published: 10th March 2018
Themes: Bronte commission, crafts, engagement, identity, signature, text Yorkshire

Work from Kotha and Kantha – the Bangladeshi Women’s Memoir Project, in conjunction with the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Educational Trust can be seen touring local North West libraries in the spring of 2017.  https://mmuspecialcollections.wordpress.com/2017/06/29/kotha-and-kantha/ A display will be at Longsight Library 17th Feb – 8 March, then the work goes to Accrington Library – 10th […]

Published: 20th June 2017
Themes: collaborative, crafts, embroidery, engagement, exhibition handmade, quilt, Rochdale text

          From July til late Sept 2016 new work can be seen in the Wit of the Stitch at Ruthin Craft Centre, North Wales curated by June Hill. The exhibition includes new work –  a stitched sampler created in the car park at the Crafts Centre celebrating the work of early Welsh […]

Published: 8th October 2016
Themes: autobiography, embroidery handmade, identity, text

   The project Kotha and Kantha ran from May to July 2016 and was  supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. It brought together a group of local Bangladeshi women and the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust in Manchester Central Library. My role was to develop stitched-based responses related to the women’s lives, […]

Published: 8th July 2016
Themes: autobiography, Bangladesh, collaborative, commission, embroidery, identity, quilt,

A visit in 1988 to the Woven Air Exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London which showcased hand embroidered Kantha quilts from Bangladesh and Bengal brought about a change in Setterington’s work and a dialogue with contemporary quiltmaking that has continued ever since. Her work is in major collections from the V&A Museum to Whitworth Art Gallery, Denver Art Museum and Crafts Council Collection

Published: 6th May 2016
Themes: autobiography, Bangladesh, domestic embroidery, kantha,

The shared cloth made from the sewn names of children at Culler Middle School, Lincoln, Nebraska is complete.  It evolved into a “distance” and “close” collaboration following my visits to Nebraska their last year. With help from staff and volunteers at the IQSC, we worked with three local middle schools. The schools are home to […]

Published: 11th November 2015
Themes: collaborative, embroidery, engagement, handmade, identity, signature, text

A new touring exhibition that includes my work starts in Saltaire, Yorkshire this May bank holiday weekend.

Published: 10th October 2015
Themes: autobiography, embroidery, handmade, identity, quilt,